How To Setup WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin

WordPress SEO by Yoast is one of the top rated plugin for wordpress, used by some of the giants in the online industry like Search Engine Land, Mashable, etc to improve their rankings in the search engine. This wordpress plugin is a bit difficult to use, however, there is no need to worry about it because I will teach you each and everything in this post.

Before we start, we must install & activate WordPress SEO by Yoast to understand it more. If you have already installed it on your wordpress, your blog will now have a new SEO tab just below the (settings tab)

A complete guide on How to Set up WordPress SEO by Yoast:

1.SEO Tab

1. You can access General Settings Page in the plugin by clicking SEO tab. This is the place, where you will have to make validations about your Alexa, Bing and Google Webmaster tools verification meta keys.

2.SEO: Metas and Titles (General)

1. Usage of meta Keywords tags: We have to use meta keywords in pages and posts to direct searchengines to look for our website with the help of targeted keywords.

2. “Noindex” subpages of archives: If you are looking to avoid the indexation of the pages of the archives of posts /page/2/ in the search engines, simply enable this option.

3. Robots like noydir and noodp stops search engines to fetch the description of the pages of DMOZ in search engine.